Teresa Molina says she receives minimal pay and reduced hours at her McDonald’s location in The City and that management keeps asking her to perform faster and faster. “They treat us like robots.'
Molina alleges that if she sought out a place to report the mistreatment like the California Department of Fair Employment she would face further cuts to her schedule or even being let go entirely. She has been told this by management, she said.
AB257, introduced by four assembly members including local representative Evan Low, would establish a Fast Food Sector Council within the state’s Department of Industrial Relations. Also known as the FAST Recovery Act, AB257 would require 11 officials to create streamlined, minimum standards for wages, working hours and other conditions.
“Right now, if we go on strike, they threaten to fire us. We need a place to go where we feel safe,” she said.Molina is exactly the kind of Californian the bill is intended to serve, according to its author, Assemblyman Chris Holden. There are approximately 557,000 residents like her, people who keep the fast food industry running.
Holden said in a statement that if AB257 is passed it would make the Golden State a top dog in"the fight for systemic change within the fast-food sector."
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